Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Great Britain

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Great Britain. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 06 May 2026

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05/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:41:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
5	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
6	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
20	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
21	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
22	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
31	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
32	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
33	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
37	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
38	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
40	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
41	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
42	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
43	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
46	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
48	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
49	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
54	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
55	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
56	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
59	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
60	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
63	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
64	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
66	Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	43
67	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
69	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
70	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
71	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
74	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
75	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
76	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
77	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
79	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
80	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
81	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
83	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
85	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
87	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
88	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
90	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
91	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
92	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
93	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
94	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
95	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
96	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
97	7 metrów pod ziemią	Rafał Gębura	Society & Culture	271	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
99	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
100	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

The podcast landscape in Great Britain is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Great Britain.
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